July 17, 2023 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff transits through Yokota U.S. Air Force Col. Andrew Roddan, 374th Airlift Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Jerry Dunn, 374th AW command chief, greeted U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 13, 2023.
March 1, 2023 Pacific Air Forces Commander opens Australia airshow, aerospace & defence exposition Gen. Ken Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces commander, highlighted the strength of the U.S.-Australia alliance at the opening ceremony for AVALON – the 2023 Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition – Feb. 28.
Jan. 27, 2023 Australia, Japan, U.S. stand up multinational task force for Cope North 23 Air forces from Australia, Japan, and the United States have begun arriving in Guam to establish the command and control multinational task force for Cope North 2023, which runs Feb. 8-24, 2023.
Jan. 27, 2023 New PACAF Watch Center enables eyes in the sky Pacific Air Forces took another step in its multi-phase series to upgrade the headquarters building when senior leaders hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly renovated Pacific Air Forces Watch Center at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 19.
Jan. 18, 2023 Team Yokota aids Space Systems Command in historic US-JP space partnership Yokota’s very own 374th Mission Support Group and hosted Air Mobility Command unit, the 730th Air Mobility Squadron, assisted the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) to deliver the first of two payloads to be hosted on Japan’s Geo-based Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), Jan. 17.
Dec. 14, 2022 Partner nation air forces deliver humanitarian aid during Operation Christmas Drop 2022 Five partner nation air forces worked together to deliver humanitarian aid as part of Operation Christmas Drop 2022, the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian aid mission delivering essential supplies to island communities in the western Pacific, Dec. 4-13, 2022.Aircrew from the U.S.
Sept. 10, 2022 Pitch Black 2022 concludes international interoperability exercise Approximately 110 U.S. Airmen from Pacific Air Forces participated in Exercise Pitch Black 2022, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Chief of Air Force’s biennial capstone international engagement activity with forces drawn from a wide range of regional, coalition and Allied nations. This year, 17
Aug. 25, 2022 Air Force Chief of Staff visits Indo-Pacific bases, stresses importance of DoD’s priority theater U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. traveled to locations across the Department of Defense’s priority theater Aug. 4-13, reinforcing U.S. and U.S. Air Force commitment to free and open Indo-Pacific and recognizing the contributions of Airmen and families serving there.Brown was able to
Dec. 13, 2019 Symposium hosts unprecedented number of air chiefs from across the Indo-Pacific Air chiefs and leadership from the Indo-Pacific region gathered for the 2019 Pacific Air Chiefs Symposium at Headquarters Pacific Air Forces here Dec. 3-6, jointly hosted by Gen. David Goldfein, U.S. Air Force chief of staff, and Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., PACAF commander.
March 5, 2019 COMPACAF honors 75th Anniversary of WWII battle; visits Micronesian islands Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., Pacific Air Forces commander, visited the island of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau and Kwajalein Atoll of the Republic of Marshall Islands Feb. 16-20, 2019. Brown hosted Assistant Secretary Douglas Domenech of the U.S. Department of Interior as